Search Engine pioneer, Google Inc said last Tuesday that Google App Engine would give more computing resources to developers and will announced pricing its services this year.
Developers who are using Google App Engine, that allows outsiders to build Web applications on the same foundation that runs with the same Google applications, it has free quota […]

By Mikael Ricknäs
May 28, 2008 — IDG News Service —
A group of Belgian newspaper publishers wants Google to pay up to ¬49.2 million (US$77.5 million) in damages for violating copyright law by publishing their articles on Google News and caching their web pages.
It made the claim in a court summons served last week, and […]

By Nancy Gohring
May 27, 2008 — IDG News Service —
Dell was found guilty on Tuesday of fraud, false advertising, deceptive business practices and abusive debt collection practices in a case brought by the New York attorney general.
The Albany County Supreme Court found that Dell deprived customers of technical support that they bought or were eligible […]

By Tarmo Virki
PARIS (Reuters) - The world’s top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the role of its Internet-focused devices grows, company officials said.
Linux has so far had little success on cellphones, but its role is increasing as more new Linux-based models […]

By Yinka Adegoke
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Napster Inc., the digital music service, on Tuesday opened the world’s biggest MP3 download store with more than 6 million songs in a direct challenge to Apple Inc’s iTunes store.
The new Web-based music store will have digital songs from all major music labels as well as thousands of independent […]

By Anupreeta Das
BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has proposed to buy Yahoo Inc’s search business and take a minority stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger, a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday.
As part of the deal Yahoo would put its Asian assets, including significant minority stakes in Yahoo […]

By Scott Hillis
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd launched its “Wii Fit” exercise game in the United States on Monday, hoping to get gamers off the couch and appeal to new audiences such as women and older people.
Nintendo is banking on “Wii Fit” to further broaden the appeal of its Wii gaming console, which […]

BOSTON (Reuters) - IBM said on Wednesday it has started selling software that lets customers access its Cognos business intelligence software via BlackBerry mobile devices.
The device maker, Research in Motion is encouraging businesses to create software specifically for the BlackBerry so that it can boost usage beyond the e-mail, messaging, calendar and phone services for […]

By Wojtek Dabrowski
TORONTO (Reuters) - More than one-third of workers would choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24 hours and could take only one item, a new survey has found.
The survey, conducted by market research firm IDC and sponsored by […]

HARARE (Reuters) - Hackers attacked the website of Zimbabwe’s state-owned Herald newspaper and shut it down for three days, the newspaper said on Monday.
The Herald is widely seen as the official mouthpiece of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party and has been critical of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) which won the country’s […]